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01-02-2010, 02:48 AM
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I was having some issues recently with my Duncans as well. They got knocked off their ledge and landed on one of my rics, which I didn't find until I got home from work. I didn't think a ric could hurt a Duncan... I thought wrong. Let's just say the Duncans were ****ed...
It might be the epoxy, though the carbon in your phosban would probably take care of any chemical issues. Them being unhappy is probably from being bounced around recently; plus you'd probably see other corals reacting to the epoxy as well if it were the case. Give them a few days to recover. They are pretty hardy and can take fair amount of abuse so they really just need time. I found that moving mine to a lower flow area encouraged the polyps to extend more when they did poke out and they were less likely to retreat. If you can entice them out, feed them. Mine bounced beack really quick with a little spot feeding. Bare in mind that is has only been there a week, I found mine took a couple weeks until it was really happy. 
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01-02-2010, 05:31 PM
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Albertan are you sure it isn't a pistol shrimp? Have you actually seen the little guy before? I keep my duncans right off of the sand on a piece of live rock and they tend to do really well (I target feed allot) but I know that Ric's have a really nasty sting so that and the epoxy has probably ****ed them off. Although you can epoxy them I find that because duncans have tissue coming up the stalk (As shown below):
 That using super glue on the base of the skeleton works the best, this way you don't have any necrosis that takes off due to smothered tissue. Hope he pulls through, keep the target feeding up. Levi Last edited by Zoaelite; 01-02-2010 at 05:50 PM.
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01-05-2010, 12:31 AM
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Target feeding seems to have worked
 I gave each polyp a PE mysis shrimp last night and today they're open and looking pleased as can be! Thanks for the advice guys. In regards to the mantis, I did see the guy once (and only once), in a crevis in the rock beating a new burrow, pretty positive it's a mantis. That's assuming that the clicking is the same critter that was making the noise pre-tank tear down per my earlier story.
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